Natural & Applied Sciences

Past Seminars

Date	Speaker [Host]	Title/Topic
9/23/22	Lynn Markham, MS Center for Land Use Education UW-Stevens Point	How Do Pesticides Affect Pollinators and Songbirds in Your Yard
10/2/22	Nancy Aten, MS, MLA, Dan Collins, PE, Dr. Chris Young, Ph.D Land Restoration School	Big Seeds: The Land Restoration School
10/21/22	Dr. Olivia Bernauer, Ph.D Department of Entomology UW-Madison	Pollination Biology: Cliamte Change and Bee Nutrition
11/4/22	Dr. Erin Stache, Ph.D Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University	Photochemistry and Applications in Sustainable Polymer Chemistry
11/18/22	Emily Tyner MS Director of Freshwater Strategy UW-Green Bay	National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) Designation and Research Use
12/9/22	Dr. Patrick Forsythe, Ph.D, Natural and Applied Sciences UW-Green Bay	Lake Sturgeon in the Menominee River

Date	Speaker [Host]	Title/Topic
2/4/22	Tony Kuchma - Wetland Project Manager, Oneida Nation Erin Giese, M.Sc. - Senior Research Specialist, UW- Green Bay Cofrin Center for Biodiveristy Randy Cornelius - Tribal Member, Oneida Nation	Habitat Restoration and Bird Monitoring on the Oneida Nation
2/18/22	Steffanie Munguia, M.A, Audobon Pan-Flyway Regional Director	Where the Ibis Roost: The Intersections of Biodiversity, Protected Areas, and Human Communities in the Caribbean
3/4/22	Dr. Angela Bauer, Ph.D, Vice President for Academic Affairs High Point University	No recording available
3/25/22	Dr. Cathy Rushworth, Ph.D Postdoctoral Associate University of Minnesota and University of California Davis	The Ecology and Evolution of Mate Choice in Wild Plant Populations
4/8/22	Stephanie Dodge First Nations Graduate Assistant UW-Sea Grant and Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, UW-Green Bay	First Nations Land Acknowledgement: Reciprocal Values with Restoration at the Wequiock Creek Natural Area
4/22/22	Dr. Amy Kabrhel, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Chemistry, UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus	Embedding Green Chemistry into a General Chemistry Lab Curriculum

Date	Speaker [Host]	Title/Topic
9/10/21	Dr. Bill Dirienzo, Ph.D, Associate Professor in Physics, UW- Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus	Dirienzo: Snakes & Bubbles: Star Formation in The Milky Way
9/24/21	Dr. J. Val Klump, JD, Ph.D, Associate Dean, School of Freshwater Sciences, UW-Milwaukee	Klump: The Biogeochemical Dynamics of Hypoxia in Green Bay
10/8/21	Annie Schmitz, M.Sc., Hatchery Technician at The Farmory	Schmitz: Growing with The Farmory
11/5/21	Dr. Corey King, Ed.D, Vice Chancellor for University Inclusivity & Student Affairs, UW-Green Bay	King: Understanding ABC’s of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
11/19/21	Dr. Madhusudan Katti, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University	Katti: Five Shifts Towards Decolonized and Anti-Racist Practices for a More Inclusive Science
12/10/21	Dr. Swanne Gordon, Ph.D, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University in St Louis	Gordon: Evolution of diverse coloration and behavior: lessons from ‘non-model’ model system in nature

Date	Speaker [Host]	Title/Topic
02/05	Scott T. Potter, PhD, PE, Chief Hydrologist, Arcadis Inc.	"PFAS"
02/19	Prof. Kelly Hogan, Assoc. Dean of Instructional Innovation, University of North Carolina Prof. Viji Sathy, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina	"Inclusive Teaching Workshop"
03/05	Annie Schmitz, Hatchery Technician, The Farmory	"Growing with The Farmory"
03/26	Dr. Michael Metzger, Pacific Northwest Research Institute	"Contagious Cancer in Clams"
04/09	Prof. Rainer Lohmann, Dept. of Oceanography, Univ. of Rhode Island	"Transport, Fate, and Bioaccumulation of PFAS"
04/23 [GSO guest]	Dr. Deahn Donner, Project Leader & Research Landscape Ecologist, USFS	"Managing breeding and wintering habitat for the conservation of the Kirtland’s Warbler in a changing climate"

Date	Speaker [Host]	Title/Topic
09/11	Prof. Reed Matthews, Colo. School of Mines (giving Darcy Lecture at U. Del.)	"Hydrology from the Bottom Up" [Note: talk at U. Del. starts at 1pm central!]
09/25 [GSO guest]	Dr. Daniel Storm, WI DNR	"Deer Mortality & Chronic Wasting Disease"
10/09 [GSO guest]	Dr. Todd Hutchison, Research Ecologist, US Forest Service	"Fire and Forest Regeneration"
10/23 [GSO guest]	Dr. Elissa Olimpi, UC Davis	"Wildlife on the farm: Aligning conservation, production, and human health goals"
11/06	Dr. KathiJo Jankowski, US Geological Survey	"Temperature Sensitivity and Ecosystem Metabolism in Rivers"
11/20	Dr. Jen Jeffrey, University of Manitoba	"Using advanced molecular tools to examine the physiological status of wild fishes"
12/14	Prof. Bruce Snyder, Georgia College & State University	TBD

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
02/07	Matt Bach (USGS at UWGB) & Matt Komiskey (USGS at Madison)	“USGS Monitoring from Fields to Streams”
02/21	Dr. Bill Jacobsen, Lecturer, UWGB	“Understanding glacier flow in a changing environment”
03/06	Prof. Andrea Romero, UW-Whitewater	“That was from Rosalind Franklin’s notes: Recovering women’s contributions to STEM with an intersectional lens” “Ecology and conservation of mammals in Costa Rica’s Caribbean rainforests”
03/27 [GSO guest]	Dr. Elissa Olimpi, UC-Davis CANCELED	“Wildlife on the farm: Aligning conservation, production, and human health goals”
04/10	Shelley Spear, Colorado State University CANCELED	“How Ecological Context Drives Black Bear Reproduction and Human-Bear Conflicts in New Jersey”
04/24	Prof. William Holt, Urban Environmental Studies Program, Birmingham-Southern College CANCELED	“Urban Environmental Studies: Developing Cross-Disciplinary Programs”

	Fall Semester 2019
09/13	Dr. Ken Webb, Research Scientist & Lecturer, UWGB	"Local and Sustainable: The Farmory and UWGB"
09/27	Prof. Anindo Choudhury, St. Norbert's College [Host: TBD]	There is a worm in my fish: Up close and personal with the human broad tapeworm"
10/11	Prof. Eric Carson, Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, UW-Madison [Host: Luczaj]	"The River That Flows Uphill: Geologic evolution of the lower Wisconsin River valley, stream piracy, and reorganization of North American mid-continent rivers"
10/25 [GSO guest]	Nathan Haan Ph.D., Research Associate, Michigan State University	"Monarch Butterflies" Their Interactions with Milkweed Host Plants and Predators"
11/08	Dr. Dragos G. Zaharescu, Lecturer, UWGB, central campus	"From Rock to Life"
11/22	Asst. Prof. Renee Richer, UWGB, Marinette Campus	"From Arabia to Appleton: Cyanotoxins and the risk to human health"
12/13 [GSO guest]	Aaron Martin, Wisc. Dept. of Nat. Resources	"Digging deeper: highlights of WDNR research investigating connections among anthropogenic disturbance, wetland soils, and wetland condition"

	Spring Semester 2019
02/08	Ben Geisler, Lecturer, UWGB	"Adding Aspect Oriented Programming to a Video Game Engine through DSLs"
02/22	Kelly Wilhelm, Lecturer, UWGB	"From Antarctica to Alaska: Soils and Climate Change in High Latitude Regions"
03/08 [Shapley Lecturer]	Nicolle Zellner, Albion College	"Life in the Universe"/Astrobiology
03/29 [GSO guest]	Lucan Nathan, Michigan State University	"Adaptive management of Lake Erie grass carp: Implementing control efforts and reducing uncertainties."
04/12	Jessica Warwick, Visiting Asst. Prof., UWGB-Marinette Campus	"Temporal and spatial patterns of freshwater invertebrate communities"
04/26 {GSO guest]	Lillie Langlis, Penn State University	Impacts of shale gas development on songbirds in Pennsylvania forests

	Fall Semester 2018
09/14	Sarah Mittlefehldt, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Northern Michigan University	"Renewable Power and Environmental Politics Since the 1970s"
09/28	Sidney Hemming, Professor and Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University	"Toward a 5-Million-Year Record of the Greater Agulhas Current System"
10/12 [GSO guest]	Francisco Arriaga, Asst. Prof., Dept of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Soil management in agroecosystems: The picture is not always clear"
10/26 [GSO guest]	Lucas Bell-Dereske, Michigan State University	"The Role of Microbes in Switchgrass Productivity"
11/09 [GSO guest]	Christine Anhalt-Depies, Dept. of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Citizen science: A case of collaboration with the public for wildlife monitoring"
12/07	Chris Houghton, Research Scientist, UWGB	"A hitchhiker's guide to Lake Michigan Fish Habitats" (or "The importance of when and where to fishes of Lake Michigan")

	Spring Semester 2018
02/02	Mark Norfleet, Asst. Prof. of Mathematics, UWGB	Connection Between Geometry and Number Theory
02/16	Julia Noordyk, Coastal Storms Specialist, UW-Sea Grant	Great Lakes Water Levels
03/02	Carrie Kissman, Asst. Prof. of Biology and Environmental Science	The effects of eutrophication and dredging on NE WI aquatic food webs
03/23	Erick Shambarger, Environmental Sustainability Director, Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO), City of Milwaukee	ReFresh Milwaukee-Toward a World-Class-Eco-City
04/06	Dr. Matt McCary, UW-Madison	Understanding the impacts of invasive plants on belowground food webs
04/20	Dr. Sarah Collier, Seattle Tilth and UW_Madison	Soil Carbon: Implications for Soil Quality, Agricultural Resilience, Land Management, and Climate Change

Spring Semester 2017
February 3	Kirti Yenkie, Post-doctoral researcher, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison. Dr Yenkie's presentation is part of the UW-System Women and Science Postdoctoral Seminar Program	Separation Networks for Recovery of Bio-Based Chemicals: A Roadmap for Matching Biological and Process Feasibility.
February 17	Mandeep Singh Bakshi, Chemistry Lecturer, Natural & Applied Sciences, UW-Green Bay	Dr. Mandeep Singh Bakshi, Chemistry Lecturer, Natural & Applied Sciences, will give a presentation on "Biomineralization of Sustainable Biomaterials: Biological Applications and Nanotoxicity" at this Friday's (Feb 17) NAS seminar. NAS seminars are held in the Environmental Sciences building (ES) room 301, 3:30-4:30 pm and are preceded by a social in ES 317 from 3:00-3:30 pm. Seminars are free and open to the public.
March 3	John Luczaj, Geoscience Professor, Natural and Applied Sciences, UW-Green Bay	Aquifer Drawdown and Recovery in the Northeast Groundwater Mgmt Area, Wisconsin: A century of Groundwater Use
March24	Marc Anderson, Former Professor and Chair Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, UW-Madison Director of Energy Storage Division, Imdea Energia, Madrid, Spain	Building a Better Environment by Doing Things Porely
April7	Toni Glymph-Martin Senior Environmental Microbiologist	Wastewater Treatment: A Positive Role of Bacteria, Protozoa, and Metazoa. Recommended reading prior to seminar: Glymph Martin recommended reading.pdf
April 21 Earth Week	Bill Tracey, Professor of Agronomy, UW Madison, Cliff Bar and Organic Valley Endowed Chair in Plant Breeding for Organic Agriculture	The Creative Power of Plant Breeding and Applications Toward Sustainability

Fall Semester 2016
September 16	Brian Welsch, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay	Understanding the Dynamics of Solar Eruptions
September 30	Tom Sigmund, Director, NEW Water	R2E2: Transforming a Utility
October 14	Patrick McNamara, Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, Marquette University	Antimicrobial chemicals from consumer products impact antibiotic resistance in environmental treatment systems
October 28	Anne Pringle, Associate Professor, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin Madison	Reverse ecology: Using genomes to understand the natural histories of cryptic organisms.
November 11	Mike Parsen, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey	Town of Lincoln Groundwater Study: A Selected Hydrogeologic Characterizaton in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
December 2	Tetyana Malysheva, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay	Mathematical analysis of deformation and transport in porous media

Spring Semester 2016
February 5	Tucker Burch, Research Agricultural Engineer, Environmentally Integrated Dairy Management Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, UWGB Alum *Room Changed to Environmental Sciences 114*	Assessment of Human Health Risk due to Spray Irrigation of Dairy Manure
February 19	Patrick Robinson, UW Extension Environmental Resources Center, UWGB Alum	From Concept to Reality: Developing a Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve in Wisconsin
March 30	Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware	Are Introduced Plants "Bad"?
April 8	Dr. Megan J. Olson Hunt, Assistant Professor (Statistics)	Statistics Done Wrong
April 22	Steven M. Grenier, Director of Public Works, Green Bay	The Changing Face of Development in Green Bay: A Discussion

Fall Semester 2015
September 11	Don Waller: Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin	Drivers of long-term ecological change in temperate forest plant communities
September 25	Antxon Olabe Egana: International Visiting Scholars Program	Homo sapiens and Biosphere. Building up hope, redressing the climate-environment crisis
October 9	John Hartig: Refuge Manager, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy	Bringing Conservation to Cities: Lessons from Building the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.
October 23	Matt Allender: College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois	Another Emerging Fungal Disease: Snake Fungal Disease Threatens Conservation Efforts
November 6	Mike Machesky: Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois	Often too much but sometimes too little: Phosphorus and dissolved oxygen in Illinois streams and rivers
November 20	No Seminar
December 4	Sarah Yang, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison	Water Quality in Northeast Wisconsin

Spring Semester 2015
February 6	Naresh Rimal: School of Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Australia	Opportunistic Blending of Grounded Theory and System Thinking in Food Security Inquiry
February 20	Kim Scribner: Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University	Long-lived iteroparous species, ecological, demographic and genetic complexity: acquisition, management and analytical challenges associated with big data.
March 6	Troy Runge: Biological Systems Engineering, UW-Madison	Dairy Manure in Wisconsin: Environmental Bane or Energy Boon?
April 3	Jeremy Intemann: Natural & Applied Sciences, UW-Green Bay	The Structural Evolution of a Semiconducting Polymer for Organic LEDs and Solar Cells
April 17	Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay	The Evolution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in India
May 1	Patrick Forsythe: Natural & Applied Sciences, UW-Green Bay	Reproductive Ecology and Habitat Use of Primitive and Sport Fishes of Green Bay

Fall Semester 2014
September 12	Stephen J.Mullin, Department of Biological Sciences Eastern Illinois University	No place like home anymore: Colubrids coping in modified habitats in the Midwest
September 26	Franklin Chen, Natural & Aplied Sciences, UW-Green Bay	Electronic origins of acid-base character
October 10	Mark Holey, Project Leader for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service office in Green Bay	Federal management of Great Lakes fish
October 24	David Helpap, Public & Environmental Affairs, U W-Green Bay	Brownfield Redevelopment
November 7	Nelson Ham, Geology and Environmental Science, Saint Norbert College	Geology of midwestern streams
November 21	Rachel Russell, Public & Environmental Affairs, UW-Green Bay	Green space and urban agriculture

Spring Semester 2014
February 7	Nicole Van Helden and Kari Hagenow The Nature Conservancy	Conservation in the Great Lakes, Green Bay and the Gems of Door County
February 21	Stephen Mullin Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University	No place like home anymore: Colubrids coping in modified habitats in the Midwest.
March 7	Tammie Paoli Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources	An overview of fisheries management and surveys in Green Bay and southern Oconto County.
March 28	Kevin Fermanich Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	Green Land vs. Green Water: Managing Watershed Vulnerability for a Better Bay
April 11	Ryan Currier Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	The Flowering of Magma Bodies in the Crust
April 25	Nguyen Khac-Tiep United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Energy and Climate Change Branch	Climate Change and Energy: Current Status, Future Scenarios and Impacts Related to United Nations Industrial Development Organization Work.

Fall Semester 2013
September 13	Dajun Wang School of Life Sciences, Peking University, China, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Wildlife research in western China: threats and conservation
September 27	Charles Brown Dept. of Biology, University of Tulsa	The costs and benefits of coloniality in cliff swallows: insights from a 30-year study
October 11	Cancelled
October 25	Elizabeth Wheat Assistant Professor, Public and Environmental Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay	It's Not Easy Being Green: Challenges Faced by Litigants in Environmental Cases at the Court of Appeals
November 8	Tracey Holloway Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of WI--Madison	Energy options for cleaner air
November 22	Terry Gerlach Cascades Volcano Observatory, US Geological Survey	Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions

Spring Semester 2013
Tea: 3:00pm in ES 317		Talk: 3:30 - 4:30pm in ES 328
February 8	Dr. Greg Davis Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	Math and Population Dynamics or Hard to Swallow
February 22	Dr. Daniel Lindner US Forest Service, Northern Research Station Center for Forest Mycology Research	Portrait of a Killer: Tracking the Fungus that is Decimating Bat Populations in Eastern North America
March 8	Dr. Amy Wolf Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	A Global Approach to Understanding Forest Dynamics: The Smithsonian Institutions's International Network of Forest Dynamics Plots
April 5	Dr. Carrie Kissman Dept. Biology; St. Norbert College	How do Species Invasions, Climate Change, and Eutrophication Affect Lake Ecosystems?
April 19	Dr. Stephen Meyer Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	How Good are the National Weather Service and The Weather Channel Temperature Forecasts? Enquiring Minds Want to Know
May 3	Dr. Thomas Sauer USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment	Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Agriculture

Fall Semester 2012
September 7	Dr. Angela Bauer Dept. Human Biology; UW-Green Bay	Are there hormones in your drinking water?
September 21	Dr. Brian Wilsey Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology; Iowa State University	Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning differences between native and novel exotic dominated ecosystems: Are we entering the Anthropocene epoch?
October 5	Dr. Heidi Fencl Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	The Box and the Boson: Reflections on Teaching Physics Process in an Answers-Oriented World
October 19	Dr. Michael Draney Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	What I’m trying to do in Panama
November 2	Dr. Joseph Peterson Dept. of Geology; UW-Oshkosh	Dinosores - Injury and Behavior in Cretaceous Dinosaurs
November 16	Dr. Christopher Martin Dept. Humanistic Studies; UW-Green Bay	The Rational Structure of the Order of Things
November 30	Dr. Michael Zorn Dept. Natural & Applied Sciences; UW-Green Bay	Environmental Sensors for Continuous, In-Situ Water Monitoring in the Great Lakes

Spring Semester 2012
January 27	Dr. Daniel Meinhardt UW-Green Bay	Shishmaref, Alaska: On the front line of global climate change
February 10	Dr. David Dolan UW-Green Bay	Lake Erie: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated (Again!)
February 24	Dr. Patricia Terry UW-Green Bay	Sustianability: Lessons from Europe
March 23	Dr. Daniel H. Zitomer Marquette University	Anaerobic co-digestion for sustainable waste management
April 6	Dr. Stephen Weeks University of Akron	Patterns of evolutionary transitions between hermaphroditism and dioecy in animals
April 20	Dr. Dallas Blaney UW-Green Bay	Environmental flows, political dams
May 4	Dr. Steven Dutch UW-Green Bay	How the West dominated technology, or what I learned from my general ed course

Fall Semester 2011
September 16	Dr. Mathew Dornbush UW-Green Bay	Colonization and consumer mechanisms promote dominance of the exotic herb garlic mustard in a Wisconsin, USA forest
September 30	Dr. John Luczaj UW-Green Bay	The geology of Brown County: Challenges of bedrock mapping in a glaciated landscape
October 14	Dr. Robert Howe UW-Green Bay	Termites, fire, and cane toads: ecology in Australia's Northern Territory
October 28	Dr. John Katers University of Akron	Life cycle inventory for wood pellet manufacturing in Wisconsin
November 11	Dr. Alma Rodriquez-Estrada UW-Green Bay	Genes up, genes down, attack!
December 2	Dr. Jorge Estevez UW-Green Bay	Removing a carcinogen from groundwater: the alkaline reaction pathway for chloroform decomposition in solution